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Outpost VFX Hire Paul Francis as Chief Technology Officer

The hire comes as the company doubles its capacity in its Bournemouth facility

September
30th 2016, Outpost VFX is delighted to announce that Paul Francis has joined
the team as CTO and that the facility is expanding in Q4 2016 to double their
capacity with vastly increased render and storage capacity.

Paul has
over 20 years of technical experience in the media industry, most recently in
medical grade virtual reality applications for use in cutting edge medical trials
and will be bringing all his experience together under one hat as CTO. Paul’s first task was to successfully
navigate Outpost VFX through the MPAA Auditors accreditation for Universal,
ensuring that our security and VFX process is world class.

Outpost
VFX CEO Duncan McWilliam is thrilled that Paul has accepted the challenge and comments:
“We are all very happy that Paul has joined Outpost VFX, his experience and
knowledge will be invaluable as the company continues to expand. He will be taking us forward
in developing our GPU render pipeline, data lab and further expansion to 30
more workstations bringing us to 80 available workstations in the next 3 months.

Paul said of his new role: “As CTO I’m required to oversee and
maintain all of the IT infrastructure and am also responsible for researching
future technologies that can improve on our already spectacular CPU / GPU
render farms, distributed rendering, and software solutions that keep our
hugely talented team of artists working as efficiently as possible, and
ultimately keep us competitive. There are of course many other reactive parts
to this job, which means no two days are ever the same”.

As well as
this new appointment and the company expansion Gez Hixson has
been promoted to Head of production as Outpost increase their film slate to include
work with Sony and Universal and another Weinstein (TWC) project plus increased
capacity in production for commercials.

In
the past year the studio has worked on numerous film and commercial projects
including;Jason Bourne (Universal), Nocturnal
Animals (Universal), My Beautiful Broken Brain (Netflix), In The Deep, Under
the Shadow (Wigwam Films, BAFTA nominated), iBoy (Wigwam Films) and are
currently providing VFX on: Salty (Salty Films), Final Score (Signature
Entertainment) and Interlude in Prague (Stillking Films).

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